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Funds from BigOil! Who's shady now?

"Climate change's premise is that carbon emissions, especially from
burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil, are leading to potentially
catastrophic global warming."
~ Al Gore.

How many times have the Alarmists and the pushers for the Alarmists stated, incorrectly and dishonestly, that the anti CAGW sceptics were funded by BigOil?

ExxonMobil is a key player behind the scenes, having donated
hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past few years to climate change
sceptics. (The Environmentalist)

From 1989 to 2002, several large US companies, including the oil
companies Exxon and the US subsidiaries of Shell and BP, sponsored a
lobbying organisation called the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), to counter the strengthening consensus that human carbon dioxide emissions posed a serious threat to the Earth’s climate. (UN-Skeptical Science)

ONE of the world's largest oil
companies has broken its pledge to stop funding groups that promote
scepticism about man-made climate change.ExxonMobil gave almost £stg 1 million ($1.75m) last year
toorganisations that campaigned against controls on greenhouse gas
emissions. (The Australian)

The Carbon Brief
(TCB) has a nice analysis on the not-very-startling coincidence that at
least nine of the top 10 "skeptical" "scientists" who are publishing on
climate change have direct links to Exxon. (Desmog Blog)

All this has been accurately countered by the marvellous Joanne Nova (Link):

If Shell had sponsored a skeptic, Desmog would have turned it into a high rotation ritual chant.But apparently if the evil oil money funds unskeptical groups that’s quite legit.

'Gore's massive personal cash
influx from oil-backed Al Jazeera makes him by far the most lavishly
funded fossil fuel player in the global warming debate today. Will the
media now accurately label Gore an industry funded activist every time
they report on him?'

Was the BigOil funded Al Jazeera Gore's only bidder for the Current TV channel?

NO!

American conservative, television network producer, media personality, radio host and author Glenn Beck had made an offer to buy Current TV. (link)

After the Wall Street Journal
reported that Gore turned away interest from Beck last year, Beck took
to the airwaves Thursday to offer his side of the story. He said his
negotiators approached Current about buying the network in order to get
Beck's network, Blaze TV, into the 60 million U.S. homes reached by
Current.

Beck said his people were told that the former vice
president would have to be consulted on the possibility. Beck's
negotiators received a callback within 15 minutes, Beck said.

"Yeah, umm umm, no, not even interested," Beck paraphrased the Current
representatives as telling his people. "We - our legacy is too
important and there would quite frankly be too many people, too many
friends that the vice president would have to explain why he's selling
to Glenn Beck."

Instead, Current opted to sell to Al Jazeera,
which Beck characterized Thursday as "a Qatar government outlet that ran
every terrorist video and hates America."

So now he has to explain why to his "too many friends" why he sold to a BigOil funded Network that runs terrorist videos. Hmmmm.....

Sir Henry Fraser has an impressive CV.
Barbados' newest knight, retired university professor, Dr. Henry Fraser, received the Accolade of Knight of St. Andrew, in the 2014 Independence Day Hours. Sir Henry Fraser was named as a result of The Knighthood of St. Andrew being bestowed on him for his outstanding contribution to the medical profession and representation of Barbadian culture, especially in the area of its architectural history.Sir Henry, a medical practitioner by profession, has worked for many years as a lecturer in medicine at the University of the West Indies and now serves as an Independent Senator in the Barbados Parliament where he has gained an outstanding reputation for his work on the historic treasures of Barbados.

He has received a plethora of other awards, including the UWI’s Pelican Award, Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International and the Gold Crown of Merit (GCM) in the Barbados Honours of 1992.